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Chief AI Officer

Babak Hodjat

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As trillions flow into the race for monolithic Artificial General Intelligence, a pragmatic question emerges: Is AGI actually the most economically viable architecture for productive enterprise work? In this debate, Cognizant Chief AI Officer Babak Hodjat makes the case for lean networks of composable, domain-specific agents—challenging frontier model leaders on whether general intelligence is a costly distraction from scalable, specialized AI.

Babak Hodjat

Chief AI Officer

Cognizant

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